171 year old Mulberry tree pioneer

Common or Black Mulberry (Morus nigra)

"It's the last survivor of a plantation of exotic trees at Reeve's Point, Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, put there in the South Australian Company's garden in 1836, shortly after the company's ships had begun the official settlement of the province of South Australia."

cf. www.nationaltrustsa.org.au/heritage_icons_2005.htm#kangar...